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To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Swapped ethertype in BPF output?
References: <199606110035.RAA28148@toccata.fugue.com>
From: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 11 Jun 1996 09:43:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ted Lemon's message of Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:35:06 -0700
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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> writes:

> 
> > It's not just the ethertype, from what I can tell...See the following 
> > kludge in NetBSD's rbootd(8) (the HP Remote Maintainance Protocol boot 
> > server):
> 
> That doesn't make sense.   There isn't any length in the ethernet
> header!

RMP uses 802.3 encapsulation.  The `packet length' field of 802.3 is
in the same place as the `packet type' field of Ethernet II.  The
relevant FreeBSD code uses host byte order for both.